© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-telynor Recent reviews written by member telynor en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_443912982148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - This movie has been on my to-be-watched pile for some time, and with a day that has trapped me indoors, it seemed rather suitable to pop in a DVD and spend some time escaping. Besides, I will watch nearly anything with Frances McDormand in it, finding... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443912982148 Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:40:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443912982148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443509804676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - After reading Gail Tsukiyama's Women of the Silk, a novel set in China, I knew that she was a writer that I was going to be hunting up again for future reads. But now that I've finished The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, I'm not too certain... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443509804676 Wed, 3 Sep 2008 02:03:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443509804676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_443101056644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - History, especially that which is viewed through the eyes of women, has always fascinated me. Over the last decade, one period of history that has really started to interest me is that of Georgian England, during the reigns of the five Hannoverian kings... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~443101056644 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:16:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_443101056644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442917817988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - After I had finished the first of the Arkady Renko novels, Gorky Park, I had to get my hands on the second one as soon as I could. Not so quickly that I would burn out on the character or the author, but soon enough, as it was pretty apparent that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442917817988 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:26:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442917817988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442273009284?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - For some years now I've been exploring the works of Alan Hovhaness (full name: Alan Hovhaness Chakmakjian), an American composer of Armenian descent who sadly, passed away in 2000. He produced a tremendous body of work, including sixty symphonies,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442273009284 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:08:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442273009284?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442653445764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Today, I had a period of time that had to be spent waiting, and so I turned (as nearly always) to a book. I had been waiting for an opportunity to sit down and take in the second book in Jeff Lindsay's ongoing series about a very unusual person by the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442653445764 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:44:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442653445764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442397920900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - I just adore a good costume drama; throw in some beautiful actors, a reasonable story, and a good art director, and I'm pretty happy for several hours as I get to explore another time and place. The film opens with an old man and his lover, a young... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442397920900 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:27:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442397920900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442031378052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Give me a good, thick novel on the middle ages, and I'm a happy soul. Stir in plenty of historical details, some good emotional interaction, and I can stay happily amused and distracted for hours. And while I do enjoy reading serious nonfiction about the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442031378052 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:28:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442031378052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_442009947780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - For years now, author Ann Rule has been crafting tales of true crime, some horrific, and a few of just sheer stupidity. I have to confess, I enjoy reading these now and then, especially when I discover that those who were caught and tried were put behind... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~442009947780 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:08:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_442009947780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441682529924?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - When I first heard about the premise of the film, No Reservations, I was rather intrigued by the idea. A top chef in New York City (I mean, really, where else?) falls in love while running her top rated kitchen. Great! thought I, thinking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441682529924 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:08:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441682529924?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_441640980100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - In my ongoing quest to keep discovering new teas to try, today's choice fell on Twinings' Lady Grey tea. A recent introduction -- I've only seen it being marketed in the last twenty years -- I was rather skeptical. I had tried Earl Grey when I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~441640980100 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:36:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_441640980100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440985685636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - After reading and hearing some rave reviews about Showtime's series Dexter, and seeing bits and pieces of the series on commerical television, I knew I had to get back to the source -- author Jeff Lindsay's novels about Dexter Morgan, your... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440985685636 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:22:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440985685636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440845176452?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - When I first heard about this young adult novel, my interest was immediately caught. The Magic Flute or to give it the proper name, Die Zauberflote, was one of the first operas that I came to know and truly enjoy -- the premise is the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440845176452 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:53:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440845176452?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440649223812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Yesterday, I went and spent a good portion of the day at the Met, wandering happily through several of the current special exhibitions and the revamped Impressionists galleries. A pause at one of the minishops set up cast this book into my attention, and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440649223812 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:19:20 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440649223812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440276979332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Think of a time where men and women, desperate to make money, buy and sell shares in companies, driving the value up; often borrowing money to further their ambitions, but where a single mishap can lead them into bankruptcy or worse. Think of a corrupt... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440276979332 Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:56:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440276979332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_440315907716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Before I sat down to watch this film, I had never heard of Charlie Wilson. But I certainly did remember the long war that raged between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. Those of us who were in our twenties in the 1980's and the Reagan era remember well... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~440315907716 Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:11:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_440315907716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439471476356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - This year, I'm steadily working my way through the novels of British author Elizabeth Chadwick. If I allow myself one novel a month, I should be able to last until October, when she has several books being released at the same time, without any serious... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439471476356 Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:25:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439471476356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439582232196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - This year, I've been sampling Stash Tea Company's Teas of India collection, with mixed results. Some of the blends have been wonderful and have become favourites in my choices for a good brew. Others were just so far off the mark that I found... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439582232196 Sat, 2 Aug 2008 11:04:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439582232196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_439021375108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Long ago, back in the days when I slaved away in a newspaper, one of my co-workers urged a book on me, by an author that I had never heard of before, and said You have to read this, it's great. I gave it an attempt, but I was also young and stupid... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~439021375108 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:07:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_439021375108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438760083076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - About a week ago, a bloodcurdling shriek echoed through our abode at Chez Telynor. The screamer was me, caught in a moment of panic as I viewed a fat little mouse hustling his furry fat behind over a computer cable. After a stern talking to our resident... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438760083076 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:14:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438760083076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438600896132?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - I'm a book nerd. Especially when it comes to the English author, Jane Austen. I've read her novels countless times, I've seen nearly every film that's been made from or derived from the written works, and I've cursed at several of the lifeless retreads... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438600896132 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:30:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438600896132?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438678556292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - This year, I have been very carefully parceling out my reading of British author Elizabeth Chadwick's novels while I wait for her newest releases this fall. Rediscovering her work, and finding out what a terrific, knowledgeable author she is, makes each... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438678556292 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:22:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438678556292?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438520483460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - After watching Cate Blanchett take on the part of England's Elizabeth I, I knew I had to see the follow up in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Made nearly ten years after the first film, it does dovetail tidily into the first film. When the film... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438520483460 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:44:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438520483460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_438248902276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - Some years ago, a very dear friend of mine introduced me to the novels by the combined writing team of Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. I found myself rather bemused by the story of two young ladies in the Regency period of English history -- about... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~438248902276 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:12:10 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_438248902276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_437948354180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author telynor - When the novels of the Bronte sisters are mentioned, the ones that come to mind are Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. But there were more written, of course, perhaps not as well known, but just as compelling. Written by Anne Bronte,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~437948354180 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:48:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_437948354180?linkin_id=8003929